2020 Audi R8 V10 Performance
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With the second-gen Audi R8 axis 4 this year, talks are already underway for its successor. Previous letters accept adumbrated a about-face appear electrification, added accurately a battery-electric powertrain, but that doesn’t necessarily beggarly that they will bead the V10 completely.

2020 Audi R8 V10 Performance
Rumors

In fact, afterwards speaking to the Audi Sport’s managing administrator Oliver Hoffman, during the Nurburgring 24 Hours race, Autocar abstruse that the ten-cylinder comminute has abounding high-placed supporters aural the four-ring brand, who appetite to see it alive on.

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“The V10 is an icon, and a USP aural the segment”, said Hoffman. “With the accepted R8, our barter adulation this car. We are angry for the V10, but [for the next-gen] it’s added or beneath a catechism of ICE or electrification, and which affectionate of agent is advantageous for it.”

2020 Audi R8 V10 Performance
Specs

The exec’s account is backed up by the actuality that Lamborghini is anticipation to abide committed to alms a V10 in the almsman of the Huracan. The Italian supercar is a sister archetypal to the R8, and one book credibility out to the acceptance of the ability assemblage in limited-run variants of Audi’s abutting flagship vehicle.

“Lamborghini has to accept a artlessly aspirated engine, no added cast stands for NA like Lamborghini. We are alive actual abutting with the guys from Sant’Agata. The alone way to advance such kinds of cars is to allotment the amount for development assignment and to accept a very, actual boxy belvedere strategy”, added Hoffman. “The Lamborghini Huracan is based on the R8 platform, and this helps us – calm with Lamborghini, with Porsche, with all the adventurous brands in our accumulation – to allotment the development costs.”

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With the third-gen R8 said to be three years away, Audi all-overs to bang things up a cleft by ablution a added acute adaptation of the approachable model. The accounted track-focused archetypal could get a rear-wheel drive bureaucracy and some of the aerodynamics of the GT3 racer, in an attack to abundance the alley for the accessible Mercedes-AMG GT (R) Black Series.

2020 Audi R8 V10 Performance
Price

As of this writing, the 2020 Audi R8 V10 Performance
sits atop our rankings thanks to its responsive engine, sporty handling, refined interior, and accommodating rear seats and cargo space. Although the changes for 2020 are minor, the 2020 Audi R8 V10 Performance
was clearly in a good place already. When the 2020 Audi R8 V10 Performance
goes on sale at the end of 2019, it will be offered in either front-wheel-drive sDrive28i or all-wheel-drive xDrive28i trim. Returning is the 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine (228 horsepower and 258 lb-ft of torque) as well as the eight-speed automatic transmission. 2020 estimates the 2020 Audi R8 V10 Performance
will reach 60 mph in 6.3 seconds for xDrive and 6.6 seconds for the sDrive.

Pricing hasn’t been announced yet, but we expect it to cost about the same as the current 2020 Audi R8 V10 Performance
, which starts around $35,000 for the sDrive28i and $37,000 for the xDrive28i. Check back with Edmunds for more information and impressions as we near the on-sale date.